"The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." (Hadamard)

10/01/2009

Encyclopedia Maxima

"What is perhaps the greatest tragedy in the history of literature is recalled by the appearance of two sections of the Chinese Encyclopedia, lent to the London Library by a man who picked them up for a song in a bookshop of the British metropolis. These two volumes are among the meagre [sic] remains of the most colossal literary work ever carried out by man..." Curious?